Leadership in Sport
The nature of the sports industry is rapidly changing and there is a far greater need than ever before for coordinators, development officers and managers in the sport, community, and physical activity spheres.
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Key Course Details
Designed in close consultation with a range of industry partners
DESIGNED FOR
The programme is ideal for those working full-time in industry and focuses on leadership development to aid current and future leaders in the profession.
Career Paths
- Development Officer
- Leadership roles
- Regional Director Roles
- Director of Coaching
Skills taught
- Leadership
- Effective Coaching
- Research
Course Highlights
Module Overview
The MA Leadership in Sport has been designed in close consultation with a range of industry partners to ensure that students see that they are getting value for money studying important modules necessary for their professional development.
- Research Project
- Leading People in Sport
- Sport Business Principles
- Professional Work-Based Development
- The High Performance Environment (optional)
- Effective Coaching (optional)
- Enterprise and Innovation in Sport (optional)
- Strategic Leadership in Sport (optional)
- Curriculum Design and Contemporary Approaches to Player Development (optional)
- Pedagogy in Football (optional)
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Typical qualification requirements:
Entrance to the course normally requires an Honours degree classification of at least a 2:2 in a relevant subject, although related work experience, e.g. 3 years working in sports development, leisure management or coaching, can also be taken into account.
Additional requirements include:
- An interview may be required.
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
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Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch and we'd to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
£10,250
per year*£16,000
per year*£1,140
per 20 credits*Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
*Obligatory
Students will have to fund the cost of travel to the residential elements of this course.
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
There is a unique approach to course delivery via flexible delivery and inclusion of blended learning. The course will offer modules that will be delivered via residential block delivery and online content, to make the course more accessible to those who are working full-time in the industry. Residential block delivery style will adopt a more ‘workshop’ network approach to encourage learning from others across the group.
The MA Leadership in Sport course is delivered via a range of different methods. These include: face-to-face lectures; tutorials; group discussions; networking; guest lectures; work-based learning; some modules delivered at USW and at various locations across South Wales; online study (via Blackboard, discussion groups, social media).
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Teaching Staff
Tom Overton, Course Leader
Jay Probert
Rob Griffiths
Tony Wallis
Stephen Woodfine
Melanie Tuckwell
Grant Kalahar
Dr Lee Baldock
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Placements
For students who are not currently working in the industry but studying this degree, the course will give them an excellent opportunity to work with a range of partners. For those who are already working in the industry, it is hoped that the course will offer additional networking opportunities and sharing of ideas via informal discussions, which can provide huge added benefits on top of their formal learning.
Work-based learning is embedded throughout the course with particular emphasis on the Professional Work Based Development module, where students will work with an employer for 140 hours. For students who are already working in the industry, this could either be with their existing employer or an alternative employer.
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Facilities
You'll have access to a notational analysis suite and over 30 acres of playing fields, including five floodlit pitches. We have a sand-dressed 'astroturf' pitch, as well as a full-size FIFA approved 3G pitch. In addition to these all-weather pitches, there are six grass football pitches, three grass rugby pitches, and a large changing pavilion. Our facilities are regularly used by international professional teams, such as the Wales national football team and Cardiff City Football Club, as well as the touring New Zealand, South Africa and Australia rugby squads. This confirms the high quality of our pitches and the versatility of our equipment.
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